Rock climbing

First Monday of the month is Rock Climber's Night at Rock Oasis along Bathurst and Front. It's my second time with the same crew. The first try was 3 weeks earlier and it was a blast! What made our initiation into the sport a fun-and-learn experience was having Adrian as our instructor. He was good and had a knack for making it engaging. His moves were smooth, graceful and calculated...almost like poetry. I thought it was all about good lats to pull you up and good quads to push you up. But I realized a lot of it was technique. Muscle alone won't get you up there. My forearms burned out before I could max out my climbing hours which is until 11 PM. Resting didn't really help much. I had to call it a day. The highlight of the night for me was reaching the top of the 50 ft. climb on 5.8 scale wall (which is pretty good for a novice) but beyond that, technique had to play a more pivotal role.

After tonight, I was hooked...time to buy my own harness and make it back more than once a month. A season objective? A outdoor climb.

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